Winning Horse: Exasperate (Aus)

5yoG Tough Speed (USA) - I Gotcha Babe (Aus)(Mukddaam (USA))

25 starts - 7 wins 5 seconds 3 thirds 2 fourths $398755

Black Type Placings

3rd G3 Sandown-Hillside Big Screen Co. Eclipse Stakes 1800m (2019)

Other Wins

1st Caulfield Superior Food Services (Bm80) 1600m (2020)

1st Caulfield Troy Janssens (Bm84) 1600m (2020)

1st Sandown-Lakeside The Big Screen Company (Bm64) 1600m (2019)

1st Sale Gippsland Times (Bm64) 1616m (2019)

1st Werribee Tobin Brothers Werribee (Bm58) 1600m (2019)

1st Pakenham Park Jimmy Creed's' Yearlings Mdn 1600m (2018)

Race Result:

1st: Exasperate (M Brown/M Aitken) - $5.50
2nd: Charossa (G Richards/J Bowditch) - $7
3rd: Benitoite (C McDonald/D Oliver) - $2.70f

Winning Time: 1:41.54 Last 600m: TBA

Margins: 1 1/4L x 1 1/4L

Winning Trainer: Matthew Brown

On how well the horse goes over track and distance: “He’s always shown us a lot of ability on the track. He’s just been a bit of a slow maturer like the whole family have been.”

“We’ve always been confident that he’s better on wet ground. The track was probably playing against us a little bit today. I said to Mitch, with the way we were in the weight to get on his bike early. He made sure he got him there on the corner.

“It seemed a pretty long straight today but, no, it was good to see him solid right through the line.”

“I was a little it worried over the first 300m when Oli got on his bike. When we slid up outside the leader, I was a bit happier then. He got in really well in the weights today with the two-kilo claim and with the 55kgs. I think he relishes these sort of conditions.”

What’s next: “He was probably always going to the paddock after today. If the rain is going to hang around then we may have a look what’s on in a couple of weeks. I want to get him out in trip next time around so we may freshen him up.

“I’d love to have a live chance in the Cranbourne Cup. Something like that with him.

“Dad sponsored the Cranbourne Cup for many years so it’s a race that we’ve always loved to have a decent runner in, let alone win. But hopefully we’ve got the right sort of horse to have a red hot crack.

On possibly winning the Cranbourne Cup and then backing up in the Caulfield Cup: “You never know. His brother won the Mornington Cup, had his chance to get there (Caulfield Cup) but he didn’t get there.

“He’s only getting better this bloke. I don’t know what level he’ll get to but I hope he keeps going the way he’s going.”

Winning Jockey: Mitch Aitken

“He obviously loves the wet and was in a league of his own today. I’m happy where we were, I had cover early but I wasn’t too worried about being wide and in plenty of room.

“It’s just because he finished off the way he did.”

On whether Mitch thought he’d found the right lane: “He’s just a mudlark. He loves the wet. I thought it might’ve been a little bit better than the inside which was a but chopped up.”